One of the greatest lessons that the internet ever taught me was that I was not alone. As our barriers have been broken down by social media, people have been bolder and bolder about sharing their stories — and their traumas, their stigmas, and their secrets — without...

There is no doubt that the last two weeks have been hard for those of us who oppose Trump’s presidency. We have spent the last year and a half watching politics devolve into a weird and scary conglomeration of posturing, fear-mongering, and hate. We’ve watched friends...

TL;DR: Go listen to this week’s podcast with Emily Lindin One of my favorite things about watching someone take a burlesque or pole dance class for the first time, is watching the transformation from lack of certainty, fear, humiliation, and shame to embodiment....

http://www.performingwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/butterfly.mp4 STORY #1: I’m sick of doing the Butterfly. It’s a pole move—a beginner/intermediate inversion that I mastered a few months into my pole journey. It’s a move that every pole competition judge has...

I talk a lot about storytelling and body image on the blog and the podcast because I believe that the stories you tell—what you choose to focus on and how you choose to tell them—can have a huge effect on your ability to cope with and move forward from disordered...

Well, hello there, dear blog reader. You’re probably here because you’re expecting insights about eating disorder recovery, and, while you’ll find about three years worth of that in my archives, I’ve got something very different for you today. Because as much as I am...